Big Picture Quotes - Page 2

• One rough patch is not the big picture.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Rough Patches, Bigs, Patches

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I don't see the big picture. I don't have a clue. But I know God does. I'm going to declare that, even if I don't feel it right now.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Doe, Clue, Bigs

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• People who have "their own issues" often don't stand back and look at the big picture- they're too busy orchestrating their own issues.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Issues, People

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• A visionary is someone who sees the future with both insight and foresight: Insight into the deeper causes and meaning of events in the world, and foresight, or an intuitive grasp of the big picture, such as the trajectory of politics and popular culture.

  Corinne McLaughlin

  Culture, World, Insight

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision shrinks. There is no big picture, no dots to connect.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Positive, Positivity, People

  Barbara Fredrickson (2009). “Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life”, p.57, Harmony

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• I have a big-picture outlook, I am willing to fall, and I understand it's ok to fall, but I am going to get back up, I may take a step back, but in the end, I am going to take a giant leap forward.

  Tiger Woods

  Fall, Athlete, Giants

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• It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Player, Years

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• Remember, the Devil loves to make us focus on the little that's wrong so we miss the big picture of all that's right.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Focus, Missing, Devil

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Oct 09, 2012

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• Appreciation is a powerful tool to shift perspective. Finding something to appreciate during a difficult situation quickly moves the perspective to the big picture from the little picture.

  Doc Childre

  Appreciation, Powerful, Moving

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• Don't look at the big picture as the only achievement. Start with set, smart goals and work up to something bigger.

  Jordyn Wieber

  Smart, Goal, Achievement

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• Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Christian, Suffering, Doe

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• Those who profit from adversity possess a spirit of humility and are therefore inclined to make the necessary changes needed to learn from their mistakes, failures, and losses. ... When we are focused too much on ourselves, we lose perspective. Humility allows us to regain perspective and see the big picture. ... Humility allows us to let go of perfection and keep trying.

  John C. Maxwell

  Letting Go, Mistake, Humility

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• In the big picture we are all eternal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Bigs

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• If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Bigs, Ifs

  John C. Maxwell (2008). “Team Maxwell 2in1 (Winning With People/17 Indisputable Laws)”, p.21, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.

  Ryan Lochte

  Moving, Trials, Olympics

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• Because I am a part of the Big Picture, I do matter and substantially so. Because I am only a part, however, I am rightly situated off to stage right—and happily so. What freedom there is in such truth! We are inherently important and included, yet not burdened with manufacturing or sustaining that private importance. Our dignity is given by God, and we are freed from ourselves!

  Richard Rohr

  Important, Matter, Dignity

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• Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.

  John Grisham

  Country, Book, Cards

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• It's incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God's plan

  Bill Hybels

  Christian, Each Day, God's Plan

  Bill Hybels, Mark Mittelberg (2009). “Crossing the Line of Faith: Help Your Friends Know God in a Style That Fits You”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.

  Andy Grove

  Senior, Zero, Devil

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• I wonder-maybe the key is balance. Maybe it's about living in the moment while still keeping your eye on the big picture-on all the pictures.

  Sarah Mlynowski

  Eye, Keys, Live In The Moment

  Sarah Mlynowski (2010). “Gimme a Call”, p.291, Delacorte Press

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• Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

  Peter Hammill

  Art, Lying, Thinking

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• Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we're doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change

  Michel'le

  Real, Focus, Bigs

  "Michelle Obama: 49 Reasons We Love The First Lady, On Her 49th Birthday" By Nina Bahadur, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2013.

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• There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Powerful, Thinking, Creative

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.

  Lester R. Brown

  Support Systems, Leader, Political

  Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.8, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I want my children to have access to something that looks beyond what I call the tyranny of now. You read the paper, everyone talks about that thing [in the news] that day, and all the subconscious really important stuff that's going on is being neglected. The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you try to find that. I'm doing in the cinema what historians try to do in their own media.

  Oliver Stone

  Children, Important, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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